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However, both studies found that current testing practices do not go nearly far enough to ensure that HIV-positive individuals find out about and treat their illness in a timely manner...
Offering routine HIV screenings to an increased number of Americans—rather than screening only those who are in high risk groups—is a cost effective way of dealing with the high number of undiagnosed cases of HIV in the United States, according to two new studies released by researchers at a number of institutions, including Harvard...
...HIV-positive individuals in the United States, approximately 280,000 of them are unaware they are infected, according to Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates...
Current CDC guidelines issued in 2001 recommend testing individuals from populations that have a relatively high risk of HIV, defined as a prevalence of at least 1 percent...
...Performance Of The Week AIDS patients in China's Henan province received an unexpected guest during Lunar New Year: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao. Wen shook hands with HIV-positive villagers, hugged children orphaned by the disease, and urged the local government to do more. A third of the province's residents are HIV-positive; most contracted the virus while giving blood at tainted blood banks in the 1990s. For years, China downplayed its AIDS problem. No longer: Wen is the most senior official to visit Henan's AIDS sufferers...